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February
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 Vol. 153 Issue 002 (February 1 2026)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Deep listening, political humility, Kant, and Balthasar MORE THAN MERELY LISTENING I am deeply grateful to Laurie Johnston for the care and seriousness with which she approached the French...
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ICE’s dangerous overreach
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FROM THE EDITORS State of Siege With its reckless siege on Minneapolis—supported by an influx of three thousand agents, or five times the size of the city’s police department—the Trump...
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Sanctions in Venezuela
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Gordon, Joy
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JOY GORDON Cruel and Indiscriminate The economic war against Venezuela While the recent attack on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro have been a startling and disturbing...
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Letter from Denmark
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Jensen, Morten Høi
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MORTEN HØI JENSEN The Damage Has Been Done Letter from Denmark In a New Year’s Address that will go down in history, not for the temporal scope of its inflated banalities—“Everything seems...
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Pope Leo and the liturgy
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Ferrone, Rita
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RITA FERRONE Leo & Liturgy A new study group takes up questions raised by the Synod on Synodality. There has been so much carrying on in American media about the Latin Mass, you’d think...
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Reforming higher education
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Barba-Kay, Antón
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ANTÓN BARBA-KAY Havens for the Human Reconceiving higher education in the face of Trump’s assault Most universities have long ceased to live up to the name. The word “university” once...
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Can democracy survive MAGA?
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Scialabba, George
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GEORGE SCIALABBA Spellbound Democracy cannot survive a permanently deluded electorate. By now, there is not much left to say about Donald Trump. Anyone who denies that he’s ignorant,...
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Dispatch from a DHS protest
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Gallagher, Kevin
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KEVIN GALLAGHER The Little Hours of Delaney Hall Praying for the dead outside a DHS prison O God, come to my assistance. The DHS detention...
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Bernard Lonergan’s philosophy of history
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Heaps, Jonathan
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Things Will Get Better Before
They Get Worse Jonathan Heaps Bernard Lonergan’s philosophy of history I was optimistic going into November’s off-year elections. Despite the Trump-led...
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Why neoliberals distrust Christianity
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Snow, Henry
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Champions
of Apathy Henry Snow The first neoliberals distrusted Christianity.
Their heirs have tried to revise it. Argentinian president Javier Milei has called the late Pope Francis an...
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‘Canticle to the Birds’
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Swann, Brian
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CANTICLE TO THE BIRDS Brian Swann A satellite saw their prints from space, that’s how big they were. They grew all they wanted, then some, no reason to stop. They went wherever they felt...
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Forgiving a murderer
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Assele, Julian
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Forgiving My Mother’s Killer Julian Assele How a study of universalism helped me
overcome my anger It was a muggy November evening when I received the message that my mother had been murdered....
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‘Perimeters’
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Fraser, Daniel
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PERIMETERS Daniel Fraser A weekday of back-roads and small errands, of September sun stalled in the clearing of itself. I drive home from the school run, buying a padlock, trees antlered...
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Synodality and Thomas Aquinas
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Kirchoff, Timothy
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Dialogue Before Doctrine Timothy Kirchoff Rescuing Catholic social teaching from the textbooks According to a poll of battleground states conducted by the National Catholic Reporter, 75...
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Charles Murray’s religious turn
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Chappel, James
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An Olive Branch James Chappel Charles Murray tries to make peace with the right’s religious turn. Religion can’t seem to stay put—it’s always coming or going. For my entire adult life, I’ve...
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‘Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream’
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Anreus, Alejandro
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ALEJANDRO ANREUS Matters of Perspective ‘Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream’ How does a mainstream institution whose very name screams “establishment” present an...
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Willing Warriors
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Jones, Spencer Lane
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Curriculum Wars SPENCER LANE JONES Last year marked the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial, which saw a twenty-four-year-old teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, challenge the state’s...
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Suetonius
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Holland, Tom
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Princeps & Monsters JARED MARCEL POLLEN The afterlives of ancient texts were precarious at best, and it’s not always clear why some were saved and others were not. The bulk of Latin...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF Every year, international climate meetings expand, attracting everyone from activists to oil lobbyists. The finer points of carbon taxes and offsets are debated,...
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Furious Minds
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Field, Laura K.
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Big Ideas, No Scruples MATT MCMANUS John Kenneth Galbraith once wrote that “the modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a...
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For I Have Sinned
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Toole, James M. O’
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The Ghost Sacrament BERNARD G. PRUSAK “Seldom does history offer an example of a practice undertaken for so long by so many that collapsed so quickly,” writes James O’Toole of confession. “The...
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Donald Trump and Evelyn Waugh
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Baumann, Paul
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PAUL BAUMANN Waugh Warned Us Before Donald Trump, there was Rex Mottram. President Donald Trump is determined to put his name on everything within his grasp, his face on every screen, and...
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Ash Wednesday
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Lupfer, Jacob
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Ash Wednesday Asks Nothing JACOB LUPFER The first Ash Wednesday that ever felt true to me was not in my native South but in New England, where winter presses into your bones and dusk seems...
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Two Poems
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Stein, Gary
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Two Poems by Gary Stein BEATING BACK THE IVY The hill behind our house bends to the creek, snaking down a path rimmed by azaleas and dogwood. I hear creek bubbles rise, singing over...
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